All you need is a little patience and luck, and you could witness the five brightest naked-eye planets in this month. At dust, Jupiter is in the western sky, but with every passing evening it’s coming noticeably lower.

In July’s second half, the two ‘inferior’ planets Mercury and Venus (called so because they orbit nearer to the sun in comparison to the Earth) temporarily poke into view over the western horizon just after sunset. In late August they are going to be with Jupiter.

NASA’s Dawn space probe, which has been exploring Ceres since last year, earlier completed its primary mission at the dwarf planet, but the craft is not going to examine another object in the asteroid belt. Mission controllers had hoped that Dawn will travel to another object after examining Ceres.

Deserts of the Red Planet have a surprise for space enthusiasts: newly discovered sand ripples that are never seen before anywhere in the solar system. A new study has suggested that earth’s sandy neighbor world has strange dune-like structures that are not present on our planet.

It was found last year that Ceres has bright white spots on its surface. It was the first time when the dwarf planet was imaged in detail. The composition of the puzzling areas left astronomers baffled initially, but soon they make out that salts were behind the huge white spots.

NASA, space agencies, astronomers and space enthusiasts around the world are eagerly waiting for the day when Juno spacecraft will enter an orbit around Jupiter. In an update on the probe, the US space agency announced that Juno is on schedule and all set to begin orbiting the gas giant on July 4.

As per Asteroid Day, an organization wanting to stop a future disaster, the danger of deadly asteroids smashing into Earth is real. On Thursday, June 30 scientists across the world will observe Asteroid Day.

The day is observed on the anniversary of the Tunguska event, the biggest asteroid impact hasn’t been witnessed so far. A strong asteroid hit the Podkamennaya Tunguska River located in a distant Siberian forest in Russia, in 1908.